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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

Employee Appreciation Day is coming up this Friday, so I'd like to take a moment to talk to all the bosses out there.

You heard me, peons; we need to discuss how to make you feel appreciated, so scram. Go on.

Are they gone? Just the employers here? Good.

Ok, guys here's the deal: we all know the BEST way to make people feel appreciated is to pay them well, provide excellent benefits, and allow them plenty of time off to spend with their families.

But, luckily for you, cake works just as well.

In fact, I've got some great ideas to improve your company's morale year-round, and all within the budget-friendly confines of your local bakery. Check it out:

1) Cake Memos

What are cake memos? Exactly what they sound like:

Thumbs up for less e-mail!

Even better? Interactive memos:

Just provide each employee with their own colored tube of icing, and watch the communication efficiency improve!

2) Cake Compliments

Single your people out from time to time with a spontaneous compliment. If you can't think of one, just copy a line from the "strengths" column of their last performance review:

[insert lack of "profigency" in spelling joke here]

And don't worry; if you screw it up we both know your intern will just get blamed.

3) Cake Jokes

As with the home, the workplace can sometimes experience disagreements and strife. At times like these, it's helpful to remember that nothing diffuses a tense contract or labor union dispute quite like a little humor:

After you all share a big laugh, no one will mind having their share deducted from their paycheck!

4) Cake Sympathy

Though they may say otherwise, sometimes your employees don't want you to fix their problem; they just want your validation and sympathy.

And just like that, it's alllll better.

5) Cake Kicks to the Curb

And finally, when one of your work family moves on to another company, always be sure to part ways with good grace and affection:

@ Classic Steve- yes, I was wondering if those were fingers stuck in amongst the flaming red and orange whatever-they-weres. I was perusing the comments to see if anyone else saw them. Your post makes me feel like less of a sociopath for noticing. Or at least knowing there's others like me out there.

My coworker just told me that she's going to get me the sociopath client cake. Why? Because I really have clients that are sociopaths. Best Cake EVER! :) Thanks for making all the secretaries in our office laugh out loud! :)

I sincerely hope the first cake is an inside joke! Someone who has been pestering their friends for a cake--and so they finally gave in. It is very beautifully done!

Is the picture on the second cake of the person "sending" the reminder, or of the one person who never remembers to fill out his time sheet? If so, that's a creative, passive aggressive way to get the point across...

Apparently the meeting has been cancelled for a while...they had enough time to order a cake, and for the icing to sit and bleed all over it.

I guess if your client is a sociopath, then a gift of chocolate is a good thing to help you cope. The "decoration" on the side is interesting--is that a foot standing in what looks to be a campfire? Maybe arson is this person's pathology...

I called my boss after I got home this a.m. to suggest her first visit to CW today. Hopefully, she'll get a laugh rather than think I'm being passive aggressive!I too LOVE the Sociopath Cake and did notice the severed digits. I would have to change the identifier to "patient"("pt." In our world) but doubt I could get away with it even at night; someone would tattle. Too bad I can't (very) occasionally do a cake that says: Sorry your pt.'s baby will need therapy!

Decorators rarely get to see frosting color bleed into the whipped topping or ice cream on a cake they've made (or they're paid so little that they don't care), so few of them learn the trick to keeping that from happening:Pipe your lettering first with white buttercream icing with a slightly larger tip size, and then go over top it with your color buttercream icing in a smaller tip size (this gives it nice dimension too). You can even pipe a thin layer of white buttercream using a flat or leaf tip over the area onto which you're putting color buttercream decorations like flowers to keep the color from bleeding into the whipped topping.

These are too funny especially as I'm looking at them while sitting in my cubicle at the office. Yes I agree those do look like fingers coming out from the "flames" on the sociopath cake but when you do a close up on it there's also a white foot sitting on top of the flames. Very fitting.

I especially love that they not only spelled proficiency wrong but they spelled accounting wrong as well. A perfect example of why most people think that they are smarter than their bosses.

I forsee a whole lot of "Sorry your client is a Sociopath" for Lawyer's Day. I'm assuming there is a "Lawyer's Day". They have one for everything else. Then the variants on the theme:"Sorry your customers are all sociopaths", "Sorry your patients are all hypochonriacs", "I'm sorry your students are all juvenille delinquents".....the possibilities are endless!

I'm pretty sure the "fire" next to the "Sorry your client is a Sociopath" cake is actually some type of fight happening. You know those cartoony fights where there's a dust clouds and random limbs are shown flailing in and out of it?

I must've spent fifteen minutes staring at that "Sorry your client is a Sociopath" cake. Did anyone else notice that there was a little foot sticking out of the bonfire? Makes me wonder just what kind of work they're doing...

That "Sorry your client is a Sociopath!" cake is pretty dang awesome. Seriously. That cake (or something like it) would go far in my profession. (I'm a speech-language pathologist who works with children.) However...some of my clients' PARENTS...? Yeah. Applicable. And tasty...